Definitions for chimney-piece

chimney-piece chimney piece

Chimney-Piece is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 251 anagrams from letters in chimney-piece (-cceeehiimnpy).

Definitions for chimney-piece

noun

  1. Chiefly British. mantlepiece.
  2. Obsolete. a decoration over a fireplace.

Origin of chimney-piece

First recorded in 1605-15

Examples for chimney-piece

The china clock on the chimney piece pointed cheerfully to the hour of dawn.

I feel as though they were two precious pieces of china that a housemaid might sweep off the chimney piece at any moment.

Beside the crackling wood fire, his arms on the chimney piece, his face hidden, stood a gray-haired man.

He heated some sous red hot on the stove and laid them on the chimney piece.

He took his loaded gun from its place over the chimney piece.

His sabre hung over the chimney–piece in his simple bedchamber.

The lamp must be standing on the chimney piece to the right.

The carving about the chimney piece, by Gibbons, is incomparable.

While he spoke, the grating of a match that would not readily ignite, was heard against the chimney piece.

Then they left the heroine of the hour to Mabel and Mrs. Hartley and began to investigate the chimney piece.

Word Value for chimney-piece
Scrable

17

Words with friends

18

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